You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Without literature my life would be miserable.
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.